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- mymoustache, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43you mean what it would look like to you.
with your two forward-facing human eyes. - bayonetblaha, on 10/12/2007, -25/+54that's so ***** annoying
- lazyrussian, on 10/12/2007, -13/+41home sweet home. thank you.
- TheSavageNation, on 10/12/2007, -7/+32I was just there a few months ago, it was impressive! I then went to Czech Republic where some of the underground was very similar.
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Underground
- jawadde, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25@theSavageNation : it's normal : every sufficiently large community will naturally spawn a small group that seeks its sole life-purpose in annoying/bugging/harassing the group for no particular reason at all. If you look closely, you will find that every digg article wil have its first few comments modded down rapidly. When the grown-ups log in, the retard-modding is usually undone very quickly
- zackz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Beautiful and glad to see there are no AT&T or McDonalds billboards. Wonderful architecture and they don't blow their horns about it either.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24360-degree wide panoramas make it difficult to understand what the real scene looked like..
- stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Yeah, I agree. It would be far more cool if some clever Russian brought us some VR panorama's of such things.
Many Americans don't know that Russia is more than a wasteland of run-down, utilitarian monoliths left behind by the failed Soviet state. The corporate media shows them little else. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21Oh my. Those panaromas kinda remind me of those funhouse mirrors.
- JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Subway. The Term "Underground" is commonly used in europe.
- hawks5999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12a lot of the underground was constructed during Stalin's reign. There are hammers and sickles everywhere in the design. It's constantly in a state of expansion and remodel though. One of the best and main stations has entrances at Red Square and near the Bolshoi theater. If you enter from Red Square you will see a colonnade of sculptures that are military in style and they gradually become more and more civilian and cultural (artists and farmers) as you reach the entrance from the Bolshoi side. It's quite a sight. Pushkin Square is a nice station as well. I think I liked it the best because it was the station closest to McDonald's which after several months of boiled potatoes and boiled meat was heaven.
- JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Gah... I let the edit slip away... Metro is also used.
- jonesyhahaha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11why can't New York's subways look like that?
- mikebeauchamp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Really makes the subways here in North America look like *****... oh wait they are.
- UncommonSense, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9In the United States, empty space equates to wasted space in terms of lost advertisement revenue. As a result, American landscape is tainted with visual pollution.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16World's fanciest nuke shelter.
- Bioshocker, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12That kind of crime rate does tend to happen when a handful of people steal most of a country's riches and create a massive wealth imbalance.
- hawks5999, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I spent two summers in russia in the mid-90's. Since then I've always held that Moscow is my favorite city in the world... and that is almost entirely the result of the metro (or subway or underground, however you like to call it). You could get anywhere in the city in a few minutes for about 25 cents. And each station was a unique work of art or culture or history.
- Bloekie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9In Belgium, we had a "Survivor"-like tv-show that started in the Moscow Underground, it looked marvelous.
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"The Moscow subway was built in Soviet Russia as a showpiece of how great Moscow and Communism was to the rest of the world."
Probably not, as it was pretty hard to even visit Russia back then, and they were hardly much into tourist attractions during these times. :-p Also, since this is not a too well-known fact, that's also a sign to the contrary. No, I think it was rather to give confidence to their *own* people in that their government was doing a good job for the people. - Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Metro_2
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9stonebear, i don't know anyone who thinks that.. russia is known for its cool pear shaped buldings around here..
- masterchan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9"World's fanciest nuke shelter."
Don't mod this guy down. Parts of the Soviet metro system were actually designed to be used as a bomb shelter in case of a nuclear standoff. I've used the metro in Moscow and St.Petes and they go pretty ridiculously deep.
From Wikipedia:
"The beginning of the Cold War led to the construction of a deep part of the Arbatskiy line. The stations on this line are very deep and were planned as shelters in the event of nuclear war." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The Great Automobile God... see above.
- TDot1980, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12MOSKAU! MOSKAU!
Wirf die Gläser an die Wand
Russland ist ein schönes Land
Ho ho ho ho ho, hey - steal_apps01, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11In the tech section...because your mom and me where in the tech section LAST NIGHT!
...BURN! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Went to moscow last december... fantastic place, really recommend it... and the underground is fantastic - although it was built by Krushchev acting on stalin's orders, and resulted in a couple of hundred deaths...
- mbrane, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7High quality public transit is heresy against the great automobile god, and as such cannot be tolerated.
- mymoustache, on 10/12/2007, -19/+25i laughed.
smirnoff is lame, but that joke is comedy gold. - krokodil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Side-by-side comparison with, say, New York subway would be even more impressive :)
- saroth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@JimXugle I believe that they weren't. I think that the Soviet leaders wanted to impress the world.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I thought I heard a rumor of there being a second railway underneath the metro. Something to do with the Cold War. :-O
- chipset, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5No, in fact, metro is used very commonly by people of all range. It is extremely cheap and comfortable way to travel. From what I remember when I was living there, prices on metro for infinite rides (just entrance into system) were close to one dollar, which is less than 1.5 dollar for bus ride. Bad thing is that you have to ride to the closest metro station using bus.
- chriswm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Oh, also my friend who lives in Moscow said that during wartime, the subways were used as bomb shelters and since the entrances to most subway tunnels were inconspicuous, an attacking army wouldn't have a clue of the subway's existence.
- thebirdfam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6these photos look an awfully like the ones taken by a photographer named Bee Flowers and are in a photo book by this artist. just sayin'...
http://www.beeflowers.com/Metro/ - chriswm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@Skywise
These photos are of the Moscow Subway. And yes I've been there, and it's truly very beautiful, in fact these photos don't even do it justice. They must have been taken in the wee hours of the night, because during the day the subways are just jam packed with people and I've never seen them this empty. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Um... they are the same pictures, except Bee's pictures have copyright notifications on them. Hmmmmm...
- Fapper, on 04/19/2009, -2/+7One word, Amazing!
- gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -17/+22"And you thought Moscow looked great aboveground?"
no... I really didn't :-s
However, the Moscow underground does look pretty neat :D - NoOneButMe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Looks so much better then Grand Central Station or Penn Station does In NYC.
- chipset, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Economic crisis in Russia is propaganda. of US government.
- cashcashcash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4those with access to a 3D program - apply the photos as a texture to a sphere, create a camera and center it within the sphere, and have a look around! cool stuff.
- sandb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:8Fq0Q4W_gEkJ:www.rense.com/general72/mag.htm site:http://www.rense.com/general72/mag.htm&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1
- fledglyng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Nice! In 'Pattern Recognition', Gibson mentions in passing how ornate and austere the Moscow subway platforms were, but I had no idea to what extent until now.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4[quote]why can't New York's subways look like that?[/quote]
Juvenile delinquents like Mark Ecko, the hordes of homeless living in it, and most of all: the massively corrupt MTA. - Bensch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Per how many million people? Anyway, have a quick look here:
http://www.cjgsu.net/initiatives/HomRates-PR-2003-08-03.htm - JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Moskau -- la la la la la la la la ...
Ahh the musical Stylings of Dschingis Khan.... - Bioshocker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Nice attack on capitalism, too bad murder happens everywhere, YES even in communist countrys."
I'm not attacking capitalism. In capitalism, people earn their wealth. In Russia, people simply "inherited" the companies they were running at the time of communism's collapse. That's not capitalism, that's opportunistic theft.
Murder does indeed happen everywhere. But wealth imbalance is a major catalyst of crime. Unfortunate, but still a fact nonetheless. - polumrak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3diggdon, the fact that some of lights aren't on doesn't mean that they're broken. Every bulb works perfectly well but at every moment ~30% of them are switched off.
If a bulb goes out, another lightens up.
It's an old system from 30's.
And stuff doesn't have to change bulbs until 1 am, the hour of closing. -
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